INN 2.5.0rc2 available

[Petr Novopashenniy]

Good night, Julien!

Thanks for your work, and communities too!

I upgrade one part of our servers tomorrow.

--pety

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Julien ?LIE wrote:

JL> Hi,
JL> 
JL> The second release candidate for INN 2.5.0 has just been released:
JL> 
JL>    ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/testing/inn-2.5.0rc2.tar.gz
JL> 
JL> Please test it and report any problem you find.  It will probably
JL> be the last release candidate before INN 2.5.0.
JL> 
JL> It would be great if the new checkgroups handling system could be
JL> tested!  It is important and we do not want to blow up active files
JL> (with an unwanted removal of newsgroups...) so it would be better
JL> if other people than me tested it.  Thanks!
JL> 
JL> 
JL> Changes:
JL> 
JL> ** Full changes since INN 2.4.6:
JL> 
JL>      http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs/news.html
JL> 
JL> In case you update from INN 2.4.x, you should look at the above link.
JL> 
JL> 
JL> Since INN 2.5.0rc1, we added:
JL> 
JL>    * Checkgroups control messages are now differently handled by
JL>      controlchan: all matching lines in control.ctl will be used for a
JL>      given checkgroups and a doit action will really be executed (adding,
JL>      removing and changing the status of newsgroups).  You should make sure
JL>      that your local configuration does not rely on the previous behaviour
JL>      of only mailing changes, without actually performing them.
JL> 
JL>    * The overview.fmt file is no longer used by INN.  Two new parameters
JL>      have been added to inn.conf:  *extraoverviewadvertised* and
JL>      *extraoverviewhidden*.  Although innupgrade takes care of the change
JL>      during "make update", you should make sure that your overview database
JL>      is consistent with all the fields declared in overview.fmt because
JL>      they will all be advertised, and "Xref:full" forced as the eighth
JL>      overview field.  See the inn.conf(5) man page for more information
JL>      about these parameters.
JL> 
JL>    * New control.ctl.local sample file.
JL> 
JL>    * A few bug fixes.
JL> 
JL> 
JL> Have a nice day,
JL> 
JL> -- 
JL> Julien ?LIE
JL> 
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